How Chinese Are You? : Adopted Chinese Youth and their Families Negotiate Identity and Culture /

Mostrar otras versiones (1)

Chinese adoption is often viewed as creating new possibilities for the formation of multicultural, cosmopolitan families. For white adoptive families, it is an opportunity to learn more about China and Chinese culture, as many adoptive families today try to honor what they view as their children...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Louie, Andrea
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Racially mixed families.
Interracial adoption.
Intercountry adoption.
Chinese > Ethnic identity.
Chinese Americans > Ethnic identity.
Adopted children.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Adoption interraciale > États-Unis.
Adoption internationale > États-Unis.
Adoption internationale > Chine.
Enfants adoptes > États-Unis.
Americains d'origine chinoise > Identite ethnique.
Chinois > Identite ethnique.
Familles metisses > États-Unis.
Interracial adoption > United States.
Intercountry adoption > United States.
Intercountry adoption > China.
Adopted children > United States.
Racially mixed families > United States.
United States.
China.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • A background on transnational and transracial adoption
  • Beginnings: the adoption trip
  • Asian American adoptive parents: freedom and flexibility
  • White parents' constructions of Chineseness: preemptive parenting
  • Negotiating Chineseness in everyday life
  • Don't objectify me: Chinese adoptee teens
  • Conclusion.

Ejemplares similares